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KingSpeed said:
Zion hit 37% from last season. Basically the same as Dame.
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I was just merely having fun with one game sample sizes lol.

Also it's hard to take a guys %'s seriously when he never plays lol.
 
wizenheimer said:
I think you're absolutely wrong about this
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So we will take the best asset that we've had since Dame has been here and draft someone who is yet another small guard and likely will just back Dame up and is the kind of youth Dame said he didn't want... and Dame will just be cool with that when we have such glaring needs at other positions?

And we should just discount the aloofness of his most recent interview where he says, "they should do what's best for the team." and "I’m not in there trying to make a decision or anything like that. I do my job." Come on the guy is either playing dead because there is trade he likes that he's trying not to screw up or he is done with this team.
 
Fuck it.

Draft Scoot at 3, trade Dame to the Raptors for Barnes and Achiuwa and pick 13, then and select Leonard Miller.
 
blazerkor said:
I just think there is no way that is happening. If we're drafting Scoot to keep him we're already talking to teams about a Dame trade that completes on July 10th.
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I have to agree with this given all that Dame has said, and the fact that Portland management will feel compelled to deal Dame to where he wants to go. With that, if Portland drafts Scoot and keeps him if no trade value is there, Portland needs to have that discussion with Dame now. They need to work the best deal they can with Brooklyn or Miami, and then start calling other teams making a three or four team trade if needed. Brooklyn has expiring contracts available that other teams might want. Many lottery picks are available. I personally would like to see Portland get the right one and draft Lively if he is as good as is now being projected. If we are moving Dame, and he can't be moved until July 10 I believe it is being reported, a deal sitting there for two weeks can become huge in number of teams/players. Get the ball rolling if this is the cards being dealt.
 
Pinwheel1 said:
Dame, Sharpe, and Scoot can absolutely work. Ant would be the odd man out if he can bring in a vet at forward.
I am good with keeping Scoot or trading him for a star.
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Cool, so we're going to go with another small guard next to Dame... fucking brilliant. The only reason I don't care about this idea is that Dame just got done saying he doesn't want to play with more youth and that is exactly what Scoot is. If Scoot is here Dame is gone and if Dame is here we'll likely have Zion.

It would be shocking as hell if we decided to roll with Dame, Scoot, Shaedon, Grant and Nurk (or even a Nurk replacement) it's just too fucking small and we've already been through this how many fucking times? How many?
 
Until the smoke clears I'm just going to act like everything is a smoke screen.

Right now I think we could have a reported trade that lands us Zion and WCJ by the end of tomorrow night and that we'll have a good bench piece drafted with pick 23 maybe an experienced guy like Trayce Jackson-Davis.

We could have a rotation queued up of Dame, Shaedon, Jerami, Zion, WCJ, Matisse, Nas, Trayce and a PG we get with the TPMLE Javon Carter. I'd say if healthy and I know that's a big if, that will be the best rotation Dame has played with in his career.
 
blazerkor said:
Cool, so we're going to go with another small guard next to Dame... fucking brilliant. The only reason I don't care about this idea is that Dame just got done saying he doesn't want to play with more youth and that is exactly what Scoot is. If Scoot is here Dame is gone and if Dame is here we'll likely have Zion.

It would be shocking as hell if we decided to roll with Dame, Scoot, Shaedon, Grant and Nurk (or even a Nurk replacement) it's just too fucking small and we've already been through this how many fucking times? How many?
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Dame supposedly also doesn’t want to mentor and that’s exactly what he’d be doing with his eventual replacement.
 
Natebishop3 said:
Dame supposedly also doesn’t want to mentor and that’s exactly what he’d be doing with his eventual replacement.
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Yeah, he's just not going to be here if Scoot is here. It's the exact situation he said he wasn't down for in those interviews everyone here has watched by now. His aloofness in the new interview is either staying out of the way of a trade he likes that we're working on or the first sign that he is done with our team. That's it. I'm not going to say that with certainty because who the fuck actually knows anything but it's pretty damn close to being certain.
 
blazerkor said:
Yeah, he's just not going to be here if Scoot is here. It's the exact situation he said he wasn't down for in those interviews everyone here has watched by now. His aloofness in the new interview is either staying out of the way of a trade he likes that we're working on or the first sign that he is done with our team. That's it. I'm not going to say that with certainty because who the fuck actually knows anything but it's pretty damn close to being certain.
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Yeah that quote “do what you think is best” totally feels like that situation where you ask your wife or girlfriend if you can go out to the strip club with the guys and she says “do whatever you want.”
 
illmatic99 said:
James Harden came off the bench for the first three yrs of his career and even made the finals.

He hasn't been close to sniffing the finals since.
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And how do you propose we get a Serge Ibaka (nearly DPOY and all-defensive first team) and Kevin Durant?

OKC's three best players, Harden, Durant, and Westbrook could actually play real minutes together as well, since they aren't all midgets.

Imagine trotting out:

Dame Scoot Sharpe together. Undersized at 2 of 3 positions while OKC wasn't undersized at any, and ... had KD.
 
blazerkor said:
So we will take the best asset that we've had since Dame has been here and draft someone who is yet another small guard and likely will just back Dame up and is the kind of youth Dame said he didn't want... and Dame will just be cool with that when we have such glaring needs at other positions?

And we should just discount the aloofness of his most recent interview where he says, "they should do what's best for the team." and "I’m not in there trying to make a decision or anything like that. I do my job." Come on the guy is either playing dead because there is trade he likes that he's trying not to screw up or he is done with this team.
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well, here's the thing, after you said the same thing about the meaning of Dame-->Scoot for about the 15th time this morning over 3 different threads, I just wanted to say something back because I think your assumption is very likely wrong. But of course I wasn't aware you were using an 'aloof' gauge...that changes things obviously
 
blazerkor said:
Cool, so we're going to go with another small guard next to Dame... fucking brilliant. The only reason I don't care about this idea is that Dame just got done saying he doesn't want to play with more youth and that is exactly what Scoot is. If Scoot is here Dame is gone and if Dame is here we'll likely have Zion.

It would be shocking as hell if we decided to roll with Dame, Scoot, Shaedon, Grant and Nurk (or even a Nurk replacement) it's just too fucking small and we've already been through this how many fucking times? How many?
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Scoot is not small at 200 lbs and a 6'9" wing. Whether or not he can guard a SG will have nothing to do with his size. He has the quickness and strength to be good defensively. ...., especially for the few minutes, he plays next to Dame. The guy is 19..........by the time Dame retires, he will be 22.
 
blazerkor said:
Cool, so we're going to go with another small guard next to Dame... fucking brilliant. The only reason I don't care about this idea is that Dame just got done saying he doesn't want to play with more youth and that is exactly what Scoot is. If Scoot is here Dame is gone and if Dame is here we'll likely have Zion.

It would be shocking as hell if we decided to roll with Dame, Scoot, Shaedon, Grant and Nurk (or even a Nurk replacement) it's just too fucking small and we've already been through this how many fucking times? How many?
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The one issue we don't have ... is about to be the one area we get better at this offseason.

Absolutely fucking unreal.

"Hey Dame, I know you don't want a rookie and I know you want someone who will actually fill a need... but we got you a nice new backup point guard. How's that sound? Wanna stick around and mentor the kid even though you explicitly said you don't want that? You see, he'll help because we can roll with you, Scoot and Shaedon ... and bring back the 3G lineup again! Isn't that exciting?"
 
Predator said:
The one issue we don't have ... is about to be the one area we get better at this offseason.

Absolutely fucking unreal.

"Hey Dame, I know you don't want a rookie and I know you want someone who will actually fill a need... but we got you a nice new backup point guard. How's that sound? Wanna stick around and mentor the kid even though you explicitly said you don't want that? You see, he'll help because we can roll with you, Scoot and Shaedon ... and bring back the 3G lineup again! Isn't that exciting?"
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Wouldn’t be the blazers if we didn’t add at least 1-2 guards in the off-season.
 
Predator said:
The one issue we don't have ... is about to be the one area we get better at this offseason.

Absolutely fucking unreal.

"Hey Dame, I know you don't want a rookie and I know you want someone who will actually fill a need... but we got you a nice new backup point guard. How's that sound? Wanna stick around and mentor the kid even though you explicitly said you don't want that? You see, he'll help because we can roll with you, Scoot and Shaedon ... and bring back the 3G lineup again! Isn't that exciting?"
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Exactly. How everyone isn't seeing this is pretty beyond me.
 
Pinwheel1 said:
Scoot is not small at 200 lbs and a 6'9" wing. Whether or not he can guard a SG will have nothing to do with his size. He has the quickness and strength to be good defensively. ...., especially for the few minutes, he plays next to Dame. The guy is 19..........by the time Dame retires, he will be 22.
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Dame said he didn't want youth anyone under 6'4" is a small shooting guard... it's not even debatable. It would be putting a small SG next to Dame for the 8th straight season. We would also yet again ask a guy in Shaedon to play a position up to make this shit work. It's cool though, it's not like we've done this same thing before.

It doesn't matter though because Dame said he wasn't cool with youth and has no interest in mentoring any more rookies. He said Shaedon is different and Shaedon is enough. If we draft and keep Scoot, we will trade Dame... it will happen. That is just a prediction and not a fact but it's a pretty solid prediction based on all of the information Dame was kind enough to give us.
 
Predator said:
I honestly think deep down they do. They just don't think Dame will actually request out.
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Which is like telling a guy that you respect, "Yeah I hear you saying that but you don't have the guts to do it." Dame has the guts to do it. He didn't and hopefully still doesn't want to but he is willing to have that "other conversation". He wouldn't put it out there if he wasn't willing and capable of doing it.
 
blazerkor said:
Which is like telling a guy that you respect, "Yeah I hear you saying that but you don't have the guts to do it." Dame has the guts to do it. He didn't and hopefully still doesn't want to but he is willing to have that "other conversation". He wouldn't put it out there if he wasn't willing and capable of doing it.
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Yeah if any dude is “say what you mean and mean what you say,” it’s Dame.

I knew LMA was full of shit when he was saying he wanted to retire here. I have never felt like Dame was lying to us and I think we should believe him when he says what he wants.
 
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